The world is getting faster. This sentiment is proclaimed so often
that it is taken for granted, rarely questioned or examined by
those who celebrate the notion of an accelerated culture or by
those who decry it. Sarah Sharma engages with that assumption in
this sophisticated critical inquiry into the temporalities of
everyday life. Sharma conducted ethnographic research among
individuals whose jobs or avocations involve a persistent focus on
time: taxi drivers, frequent-flyer business travelers, corporate
yoga instructors, devotees of the slow-food and slow-living
movements. Based on that research, she develops the concept of
"power-chronography" to make visible the entangled and uneven
politics of temporality. Focusing on how people's different
relationships to labor configures their experience of time, she
argues that both "speed-up" and "slow-down" often function as a
form of biopolitical social control necessary to contemporary
global capitalism.
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